Re:Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro
by Zak on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @06:56PM
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I mostly see thing the other way: for a machine or two, especially a desktop, Ubuntu is great. It made a bunch of decisions for me in advance that are mostly good, and I can override them if I need to. For a datacenter full of servers, I probably have a very specific configuration in mind and don't want anything extra. Debian seems most suited to that scenario.
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Re:Novell: Why we don't need a third Linux distro
by sliverstorm on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @10:47PM
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Most of the time, with disk space as cheap as it is now the extra stuff isn't even worth the time spent deciding what to keep.
As for requiring a very specific configuration, most of the time that is only in one corner of the machine. I would even hazard that if you have strict requirements for every facet of the machine that differ from the defaults (and this machine is not handling super-sensitive information, super-high performance jobs, or publicly accessible) then you are doing it wrong.